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No. 251,432.' .Patented 1180-211881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORTIMER GOFF, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS H.HILL, OF SAME PLACE.

BURIAL-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,432, dated December27, 1881. Application filed October 28, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MOETIMEE GOEE, a citi-4zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented certain new` and useful Improvements inBurial-Cases, which are set forth in the following specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l isa plan view of a burial-case embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section of the same, taken on the line .fr .r of Fig. l;Fig. 3, a bottom plan view of the face-plate, and Fig. 4 a detail viewof the dowel and its socket with the surrounding portion of the case.

My invention relates to the mode of fastening the cover of the coiin tothe case thereof.

My invention consists of the special fastenings hereinafter described,by which a coffintop is fastened to the case, or the face-plate isfastened to the coflin-top, when the part to be fastened lies directlyupon the part to which it is to be fastened, and can be readily fastenedthereto or entirely detached therefrom, substantially as hereinafterfully shown and described.

In the drawings, A represents a face-plate, and B the top of a coffin.To this face-plate are secured, at its ends, the dowels a a', whichproject horizontally in opposite directions.

a? a3 are sockets in the top B, one of which is provided with aspring-bottom, a4, against which one of the dowels is pressed to admitof the placing of the other dowel down opposite its socket in attachingthe face-plate to the top of the coffin. The dowels are attached to theunder sides of the face-plate, and extend horizontally in oppositedirections, their remote ends being so far apart that they cannot bothpass in front of their respective sockets at the same time.

To attach the face-plate to the top of the ing one of the dowels tocompress the spring inthe bottom ot' its socket till the opposite dowelis removed from its socket, when that end of the face-plate can beraised, and then, by a lateral movement of the face-plate in the otherdirection, it is removed entirely from the O top of the coffin.

The top B is secured to the case proper, C, iu a similar manner by meansofthe dowels b b', sockets b2 b3, and spring-bottom b4.

The face-plate has knobs a5, by means of which it is handled. The knobsb5 serve as handles for the top B.

It will be observed that by using my fastening I am able to simply placethe top Bedirectly 011 top of the case of the coffin without ratching orgrooving, and in the same manner I place the face-plate directly uponthe top of the coflin; and they are readilysecured in place withoutprojecting hasps or catches.

Having thus described my in rention, what Ielaim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a coffin, of dowels projecting horizontally inopposite directions with sockets for receiving the same and a spring forholding the parts in position, substantially as specified and shown.

MORTIMER GOFF.

Witnesses:

GEO. R. CUTLER, W. C. CoRLIEs.

